President Obama will be inaugurated on the national holiday in honor of the slain civil rights leader and he plans to use a bible owned by Dr. King for his ceremonial oath of office. (via The White House)
Four more years.
If you’re coming to DC for the inauguration, forget what you think you know about the nation’s Capitol.
The new “gun nuts”: media elites, locavores, and hipster hunters.
Assault weapons ban and new “executive actions.”
The guy who was playing Biden would have been a little more convincing if he didn’t have a mustache.
During the Showcase Showdown, no less. Inopportune timing for the president’s news conference.
Hilda Solis leaves after serving since 2009. Sebelius, Shinseki, and Holder to remain.
Would you rather fight one hundred duck-sized horses or one horse-sized duck? In the second exclusive excerpt from Panic 2012: The Sublime and Terrifying Inside Story of Obama’s Final Campaign, a behind-the-scenes look at the president’s historic Reddit IAmA.
How the invisible hand of the premiere American intelligence agency produced an Oscar contender.
Only 14 of the president’s 400-plus campaign bundlers have written a check.
The party is poised for a showdown over Social Security and Medicare. Obama vs. the liberals.
Few political figures in recent memory leave as conflicted a legacy as Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, whose stellar, frustrating political career ends Wednesday. But documents from his time at Yale University show how his beliefs and record reflect the influence of his closest mentors, liberal and conservative.
A victory lap around the fiscal cliff. Obama draws line in the sand for future deficit reduction talks.
“Keep the pressure on — and let’s see if we can get this thing done,” Obama says.
“Were the President still in the Illinois State Legislature, he would support this measure that would treat all Illinois couples equally,” White House spokesman Shin Inouye told the Chicago Sun-Times.
Urges Senate leaders to strike a deal. Hill leaders indicate sequester, debt ceiling likely to be excluded from final agreement.
Markets plunge.
Fiscal cliff negotiations make a last stand. But the path to a deal remains treacherous.
Critics say White House silence “telling.”
With no fiscal cliff deal, Obama encourages lawmakers to “cool off, drink some eggnog.”
The House speaker rejects that his back-up plan is merely a negotiating tactic.
A bitter moment in the fiscal cliff talks.
“I don’t think I’ve been on vacation,” Obama replies.
“They keep on finding ways to say no,” says the president.
There are no back-up plans. Boehner spokesman calls it “bizarre and irrational.”
President Obama won this year, but women like teen activist Malala Yousafzai and Yahoo CEO Marisa Mayer were shortlisted for the title.
Sandy Hook is the fourth mass shooting they’ve mourned. “A lot of emotion” on a private visit to a Colorado hospital.
Sometimes, they get it so right.
Carney says Obama would back assault weapons ban, closing the gun show loophole and banning high-capacity magazines.
